In ONC's 2018 Update on the Adoption of a Nationwide System for the Electronic Use and Exchange of Health Information, the group responsible for leading national health IT efforts outlines its recommendations for future actions the Department of Health and Human Services will support through its policies. All of the recommendations focus on data sharing to better understand clinical data while providing access to patients, increasing transparency and promoting efficiency. The overarching recommendations are as follows:
Today, the report outlines, patients lack access to their own data, providers lack access to insights at the point of care, and payers lack access to clinical outcomes data to assess the success of clinical services.
Patients suffer when healthcare enterprises can't connect. In order to make ONC's recommendations a reality, healthcare must transition to a connected mindset, transitioning from paper to digital and data collection to insight connection, all in service of value based care. This reality is made possible by platform technology that allows for connection across enterprises and insight delivery at the point of care.
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